UniFi Camera Proxy

About

This enables using non-Ubiquiti cameras within the UniFi NVR software. This is particularly useful to view existing RTSP-enabled cameras in the same UI and mobile app.

Things that work:

• Live stream
• Full-time recording

Things that don't work:

• Motion detection

Installation

Dependencies:

• ffmpeg and netcat must be installed
• Python2.7 only

Usage

In order to use this, you must own at least one UniFi camera in order to obtain a valid client certificate (Found at /var/etc/persistent/server.pem via SSH).

pip install unifi-cam-proxy
scp ubnt@<your-unifi-cam>:/var/etc/persistent/server.pem client.pem
# RTSP stream
unifi-cam-proxy --host <NVR IP> --cert client.pem --token <Adoption token> rtsp -s rtsp://wowzaec2demo.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_175k.mov

Hikvision PTZ (Hikvision DS-2DE3304W-DE):

unifi-cam-proxy -H <NVR IP> -i <camera IP> -c client.pem -t <Adoption token> hikvision -u <username> -p <password>

Multiple Cameras

To deploy multiple cameras, run multiple instances of the proxy, taking care to specify different MAC addressess:

unifi-cam-proxy --host <NVR IP> --mac 'AA:BB:CC:00:11:22' --cert client.pem --token <Adoption token> rtsp -s rtsp://camera1
unifi-cam-proxy --host <NVR IP> --mac 'AA:BB:CC:33:44:55' --cert client.pem --token <Adoption token> rtsp -s rtsp://camera2